African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

Hidden deep within the forest, this abandoned Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian church stands as a quiet testament to faith and ...

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has also accused the Church of appointing ‘curators’ to advance the ideals of the ‘Russian ...

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti recalled the extreme sacrifice Catholics from the Eastern Catholic Churches have made to remain ...

Most Eastern Christians in union with Rome use the Gregorian calendar, he noted; tensions between Orthodox Churches caused by the Ukraine War, in fact, led both the Ruthenians in Europe and the ...

But as the years go by, the calendars used by churches — the Gregorian calendar by Western Catholics and Protestants and the Julian calendar by Eastern Orthodox churches — continue to diverge.

Easter Sunday had seen many Orthodox leaders reflect on the significance of this year’s common date in Western and Eastern Churches and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Moreover, each church uses its own ecclesiastical calculations for lunar cycles ...